Quotes About Sincerity

Who has witnessed one free and unconstrained act of yours, has witnessed all.

We might be mad or stupid, but at least we were serious.

I'd rather get bad news from an honest man than lies from a flatterer.

Weak people cannot be sincere.

False teachers of the Way of life use flowery words.

Labels don't mean anything to me. I'm trying to play as passionately as I'm able to. If they want to call that cool, that's fine. Just spell the name right, is the formula.

It was so useful to lie with the truth.

Whatever I did—whether I was writing or playing—there was blood on the pages, there was blood on the strings, because anything less than that was just bullshit, and a waste of fucking time.

Tell me, why are the old friends kind, And ever the tenderest, too? Youth has no art, but an open mind, And its love is sincere and true.

You can embark on new and steeper versions of your old sins, you know, and cry tears while doing it that are genuine as any.

If you're not honest with yourself, life will never be honest with you.

I will speak to them,' he said 'with a straight tongue.

If you know somebody very well, like your grandmother or your baby sister, you will know when they are real and when they are fake.

Very lovely indeed" —Quigley responding to Violet's comment about the view, while actually looking at her.

The phrase 'for naught' is simply a fancy way of saying 'for nothing,' and it doesn't matter which phrase you use, for they are both equally difficult to admit.

i want to be friends with people who are honest and interesting, generous but not ridiculous, thoughtful but who don't have irritating voices

As I have said, I prefer a shop which sells one thing to a shop which sells many things, and a supermarket, of course, tries to sell everything, and there is always something distrustful about a place so eager to please.

Tessa was sincere but shallow; she was loving but mercurial; she was an exhibitionist without enough confidence to be an actor. While Fiona displayed all the characteristics of elder children: stability, confidence, intellect in abundance, and that cold reserve with which to judge all the shortcomings of the world.

There is only what is and that's it. What should be is a dirty lie.

The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it... try to fake three laughs in an hour -- ha ha ha ha ha -- they'll take you away, man. You can't.

I just need to know that I did the very best I could and that I was true to myself.

There comes a time in some relationships when no matter how sincere the attempt to reconcile the differences or how strong the wish to recreate a part of the past once shared, the struggle becomes so painful that nothing else is felt and the world and all its beauty only add to the discomfort by providing cruel contrast.

Incluso en el amor humano, el sentimentalismo no es una buena medida del amor. Un hombre puede derramar lágrimas leyendo una carta de su esposa y, a renglón seguido, serle infiel con una desconocida. Lo que de verdad prueba el amor que tenemos a una persona es lo que somos capaces de hacer por ella, no nuestro sentimentalismo.

Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver!